English: habitational name from any of several places so
called. Allerton on Merseyside, Chapel Allerton in West Yorkshire, and
others in West Yorkshire were named in Old English as alra
tun ‘settlement by the alders’. One in Somerset
(Alwarditone in Domesday Book) is ‘Ælfweard’s settlement’;
one in West Yorkshire (Allerton Mauleverer, Alvertone in
Domesday Book) is ‘Ælfhere’s settlement’.
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